Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: White
Love Mickey-original Disney character modern sculpture-Artwork contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
Introducing "Love Mickey" by the talented artist Sanuj Birla, an enchanting original table-top sculpture that celebrates the timeless charm of the iconic Disney character.
Crafted w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass
Balloon Monkey (Orange) - Jeff Koons, Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Decor
By Jeff Koons
Located in Zug, CH
Balloon Monkey (Orange) - Jeff Koons, 21st Century, Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Decor, Limited Edition
Limoges porcelain with chromatic metalized coating
Edition of 999
Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Nude - 21st Century, Contemporary Brass Figurative Sculpture, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Dimensions are given with the base
RYSZARD PIOTROWSKI (born in 1952) Sculptor. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works include intimate, small forms in marbl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Nude - 21st Century, Contemporary Brass Figurative Sculpture, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Dimensions include the base
RYSZARD PIOTROWSKI (born in 1952) Sculptor. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works include intimate, small forms in marble, bron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor Floyd Elzinga finds inspiration for his iconic imagery in nature. From his studio on the rugged Niagara escarpment, he creates beautiful sculptures using natural forms—trees, the maple leaf and pine cones. This new series of pine cones are superbly detailed, and hand forged from bronze. The polished finish lends an elegance to these tabletop pieces.
“The natural world is fundamentally my inspiration, and it is strongly reflected in my subject matter.” Floyd Elzinga
His pinecone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Hand-Blown Glass Ant Gold Plated Recycled Industrial Iron and Red Crystal Parts
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
The Ant, Gold Plated and Red Glass
The sculpture by Marcos Romero, representing an ant made of recycled industrial iron and blown glass, is a fascinating work of contemporary art. R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Limited Edition 2/3 Yellow Powder Coated Mild Steel Sculpture "Apart"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A medium sized, powder coated mild steel sculpture on a steel footing. Edition 2/3. Available in different colours or finishes on request.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Post Position
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Portland, OR b. 1971 - Hunstville, Alabama]
Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Limited Edition Powder Coated Mild Steel Sculpture "Split Walker"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A life size, two-piece powder coated mild steel sculpture on steel footings. Edition of 7. Available in different colours or finishes on request.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Flat Pot XVIII, 2019, Glazed earthenware wall sculpture cream & brown terracotta
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Earthenware and glaze
"Flat Pot XVIII" (2019)
Glazed earthenware flat goblet wall sculpture
Hanging system on back side
Earth tones, cream and brown on terracotta clay
Certificate o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glaze, Terracotta, Earthenware
Large Limited Edition Rusted Mild Steel Sculpture "Wise Man 3"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A life size, rusted mild steel sculpture on a steel footing. Edition of 7. Available in different colours or finishes on request.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Pop Top
Located in Bristol, GB
Ceramic planter, crystal blue eyes
Edition 500
Signed, numbered, dated and embossed on the bottom
New, as issued. Minor imperfections may appear due to the nature of the materials
So...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Limited Edition Wall Mounted Sculpture "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A limited edition wall mounted steel sculpture made of stainless steel on board. Edition 1/3
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
White Porcelain Pig Jumping a Hurdle "Underdog" by Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
This sculpture depicts a white porcelain pig embodying sheer determination. Hand sculpted in a super-white porcelain by New York artist Bethany Krull th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Fabric, Wood, Acrylic
Small Black & Umber Ginger Jar with Engraved Leaves - porcelain vessel
By Loren Kaplan
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This elegantly shaped ceramic jar in jet black and umber (reddish-brown) colours is one of Loren Kaplan’s new vessels. Engraved with a leaf motif, this porcelain jar’s classic shape ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
«It was you that put your foot into my habitat» Ceramic Sculpture by Hvidsten
Located in Oslo, NO
Signed and dated.
«It was you that put your foot into my habitat» was part of O. F. Hvidsten's first solo-exhibition «This will never pass». The works com...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
porcelain horse sculpture in pink flowers "Womb" by Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
This porcelain horse wall sculpture is hand-built without the use of molds by New York artist Bethany Krull and floats peacefully in a womb-like nest of pink silk flowers.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Mixed Media
Red Rocking Horse, Porcelain Skull "Resurrection of Gemini" by Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
This piece is a beautiful and large red wooden rocking horse sculpture with a mounted white porcelain skull created by New York artist, Bethany Krull. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Wood, Paint
White Porcelain Baby Birds, Topiary Tree "Birdie Topiary" by Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
This sculpture depicts two newborn baby birds perch atop a potted topiary hand built using super white porcelain and archival white paper mache by New York Artist Bethany Krull. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Handmade Paper
"Mountain King" ceramic sculpture with figure, deer, snake and chrysallis
Located in New York, NY
This free standing glazed porcelain sculpture features multi-level coves in which various scenes are depicted. The bottom level of the 'mountain form' holds a dreamer figure with a hanging chrysallis above. The second, middle section holds a snake in a nest like form. The top level holds a resting deer. The overall mountain form is transfigured into the embodiment of a male figure, with a long cloak draped along the back. This figures and forms in this sculpture are all hand-built by Austrian-American artist, Sascha Mallon.
“Mountains are a recurring theme in my work. They are a metaphor for the body and also allude to my Austrian heritage. They refer to the border between inside and outside and represent stability and home. My mountain sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Bittern- 21st Century Sculpture of a Bird made out of recycled Black Plastics
By Eric Schutte
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture is made out of black plastic by Dutch artist Eric Schutte. The artist who also paints paintings, made this sculpture out of plastic. The plastic is recycled and used ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Crystal Morey "Delicate Dependency: A Full Shift", porcelain and clear glaze
By Crystal Morey
Located in Glenview, IL
"Delicate Dependency: A Full Shift" by contemporary California artist Crystal Morey is a porcelain and clear glaze figurative sculpture that represents a seated nude female next to a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Untitled
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Vinyl and Aluminum
Sculptor William King is widely renowned for his signature flattened and stilt-legged figures, gesturing dramatically. Humorous and rife with social commentary, h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Mantis - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Kind- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Sculpture of Aluminium
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Jan Wils makes his sculptures of steel, Aluminium, bras, PVC and others. This sculpture is made of aluminium, painted in a thick layer of black a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Automotive Paint, Other Medium
Contemporary buddha head sculpture - blue car paint
By Tal Nehoray
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful Buddha sculpture is made of ceramic covered with glossy car paint. It is part of an edition of 25 and comes in other colors as well.
Easy to hang and will bring color ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Automotive Paint
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Space Balls- Green fluorescent & Light Blue, forged steel contemporary sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Space Balls- Green fluorescent & Light Blue, forged steel contemporary sculpture is a self-stanting unique sculpture for indoors of outdoors. Abstract forg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Tunisia
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Leather, Clay, Thread, Mixed Media
649 and Extra (diptych)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea mar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Born Wild Glossy Black Crocodile Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glossy Black Crocodile
43 inches
Resin Sculpture
Edition of 8
$11,600
From Richard Orlinski's Born Wild Sculpture series
Contemporary Sculpture
Crocodil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Judge's Hammer Fiberglass , Emerging Indian Sculptor , Brown Color
By Tuhin Kundu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Tuhin Kundu - Judge's Hammer - H : 17 x W : 21 x D : 5 inches
Wood and Acrylic Paint
About the Artist and his work :
Education :
Master of Fine Arts (MFA - MVA) from Rabindra Bhar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Acrylic
Pigasus - Pink Pig Resin Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
In the Greek mythology, Pegasus was a handsome white winged horse. He was in charge by Zeus to bring thunderstorms and lightenings upon the Olympus Mount, known to be the Home of the Gods.
In more recent times, Pigasus turned into a 145 pounds domestic pig, nominated for President in the 1960's by the Youth International Party the Yippies. This movement became popular for their stands against war and political establishment.
Patrick Schumacher was inspired by this symbolic animal as a memorial of the Peace and Love era.
Born in 1953, Patrick Schumacher is a German contemporary sculptor based in Nice, France. Classically trained in the foundation of Art in Strasbourg, France, he specialises in restoring art antiquities. As a result of his training, Schumacher acquired an extensive range of technical knowledge which he applies to a broad spectrum of materials. Finding inspiration in cultural origins combined with his interests in both classical and Asiatic art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Stele #5
By Toni Ross
Located in Fairfield, CT
Stele #5
Stoneware and black slip
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Slip
Victoria Crowned Pigeon - Contemporary Reclaimed Wall Hanging Sculpture (Blue)
By Yulia Shtern
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Victoria Crowned Pigeon" is a beautiful contemporary sculpture created by the Canadian artist Yulia Shtern. With delicate texture and vibrant colors, this work is eyecatching. This ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Cardboard, Magazine Paper
Astrid State 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This dimensional wall sculpture is made of laser cut aluminum and enamel paint. The back panel is painted to look like a page torn out of an artist's sketch book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Corn - Skins Series
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wearable sculpture created with corn and popcorn. Dimensions variable depending upon how the work is hung/displayed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Red Diamond - porcelain limited edition sculpture
By Jeff Koons
Located in London, GB
Jeff Koons
Diamond (Red), 2020
porcelain
31.8 x 39.3 x 32 cm
edition of 599
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KOBE, Richard MacDonald, Beth Carter, and Evert den Hartog. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.
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